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Show STORM BREAKS LONG DROUTIE The heavy rain that fell in St George Monday ended a drouth of nearly four months, one of the most severe in the history of southern-Utah southern-Utah and northern Arizona. While other sections of the county have-received have-received intermittent showers, St. George and vicinity were always passed up. From the fore part of April when one-fifteenth of an inch was recorded here, to July, when .21 of an inch fell, not a drop of moisture mois-ture came to relieve the parched condition of the adjacent ranges. Last Saturday evening one-tenth of an inch fell here and Monday seven-tenths seven-tenths of an inch was recorded in about three hours. The storm was heavy throughout this section Sunday night and Monday, Mon-day, all streams tributary to the Virgin running full. It is said that there was more water in Fort Pearce wash and Santa Clara creek than has come down at any one time in.-many in.-many years. The Enterprise and Modena sections sec-tions report heavy downpours, the storms interrupting telephone and telegraph communication both east and west of Modena for several hours. A weakened roadbed between Cedar City and Lund held up the branch train for three hours Monday Mon-day morning. The storm practically assured irrigation irri-gation water for the remainder of the summer. The Indian farm was seriously in need of irrigation water wa-ter and the heavy rain in that section has relieved the condition. Hurricane' and the eastern end of the county have fared much better bet-ter than the western and northern sections in the matter of rainfall. One and one-half inches fell In Hurricane Hur-ricane within the last U n days, not including the storm of Monday, wh'-n they received about an inch. |